Quotes

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

No crime has been without a precedent.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.